Karachi has been declared as the most dangerous city of Asia where criminal gangs reign supreme while violence has been used to enforce political hegemony.
Crime thrives only in a city when corrupt police and law enforcement officers and their political godfathers patronise those elements involved in such heinous crimes. Nobody can explain why criminals are never caught by video monitoring cameras. It is a failure of our intelligence and prosecuting agencies, which by their failures or connivance has put lives and property of taxpaying citizens at risk.
The sitting provincial government which has ruled this province for past four years, while criminals have thrived, cannot absolve themselves of their responsibilities. It is for the elected representatives of people of Karachi, especially the MQM and PPP to ask themselves have they delivered to those who elected them? I am afraid the answer is a big no.
It is in this city where hardened criminals gangs are armed to the teeth and from where over 60,000 containers that left Karachi Port Trust (KPT) loaded with prohibited weapons and contraband goods went missing. People are kidnapped on roads and streets of this city and hardly anybody has been ever caught or prosecuted. Citizens hesitate to come forward as witness, because they know that nobody would protect them from the goons, who are in the know of law enforcement and provincial government.
The tall claims of serving people of Karachi are mere rhetoric, just words with no action on the ground. It is a city where land, drug and kidnapping mafia thrive and political parties a mere tools to fool people.
RAHAT SIDDIQI
Karachi
